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- Title
Developments in Post-marketing Comparative Effectiveness Research.
- Authors
Schneeweiss, S.
- Abstract
Physicians and insurers need to weigh the effectiveness of new drugs against existing therapeutics in routine care to make decisions about treatment and formularies. Because Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of most new drugs requires demonstrating efficacy and safety against placebo, there is limited interest by manufacturers in conducting such head-to-head trials. Comparative effectiveness research seeks to provide head-to-head comparisons of treatment outcomes in routine care. Health-care utilization databases record drug use and selected health outcomes for large populations in a timely way and reflect routine care, and therefore may be the preferred data source for comparative effectiveness research. Confounding caused by selective prescribing based on indication, severity, and prognosis threatens the validity of non-randomized database studies that often have limited details on clinical information. Several recent developments may bring the field closer to acceptable validity, including approaches that exploit the concepts of proxy variables using high-dimensional propensity scores, within-patient variation of drug exposure using crossover designs, and between-provider variation in prescribing preference using instrumental variable (IV) analyses.Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2007) 82, 143–156. doi:10.1038/sj.clpt.6100249; published online 6 June 2007
- Subjects
UNITED States; CLINICAL medicine; UNITED States. Food &; Drug Administration; MEDICAL sciences; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2007, Vol 82, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
0009-9236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.clpt.6100249